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Matteo Manassero has 2011 winner Darren Clarke and young French amateur Romain Langasque for company in the first two rounds of The Open Championship.

That cosmopolitan three-ball heads out at 14:23 local time on Thursday. Langasque's presence will likely remind Manassero of his superb debut in the 2009 Open when, as a 16-year-old amateur, he finished T13. The Italian missed the cut in his next two Open starts at Royal St George's and Muirfield but finished T19 at Hoylake in 2014. Surprisingly, he's bettered that result just once in the last 12 months and, despite a brief spell of improved form between March and May, he's back in a slump again and has missed his last five cuts. Manassero did open with a 69 in last week's Scottish Open so perhaps a return to The Open will spark him back to life. Jul 15 - 8:48 AM

Matteo Manassero will head to Royal County Down this week to contest his fourth Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.

The Italian was T21 at Killarney on his debut in 2010 but missed the cut at Royal Portrush in 2012 and again at Fota Island in 2014. After missing his first five cuts on the European Tour this season, Manassero has found a groove, at least in his long game. That's helped him make his last five cuts although a cold putter has limited him to just one top 20 during that run. He's currently 119th in the Race to Dubai. May 25 - 12:03 PM

Matteo Manassero moved up 11 spots to T4 after some impressive tee-to-green golf in round two of the Volvo China Open.

He toured Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club in 4-under-par 33-35=68 to reach 5-under 139 at halfway and that's just three off the lead held by Julien Quesne. After several hints in recent weeks, this is the clearest sign yet that the Italian phenom is back in the game after a horrid run of results. Manassero split 13 (of 14) fairways and hit 15 greens in regulation on Friday -- a stark contrast to earlier in the season when his Driving Accuracy stats fell between 25% and 39% for four tournaments running as he battled swing changes. His scorecard today showed five birdies against a single bogey at the fourth and the 22-year-old will go into the weekend with a chance to secure a fifth European Tour win. Apr 24 - 6:27 AM

It was far from perfect but Matteo Manassero showed more promising signs in a 2-under-par 36-34=70 in the second round of the Shenzhen International in China.

After finally arresting a run of five straight missed cuts with a T59 in Morocco, the young Italian is kicking on here with two good laps of Genzon GC which have taken him into the top 10 and within four of the halfway lead held by Peter Uihlein. Manassero picked off birdies at three of the four par 5s and added further par breakers at 6 and 11. He was kept in check by bogeys at 4, 12 and 15. The stats reveal the turnaround in his game as, for the second day running, he hit 15 greens in regulation. The 21-year-old four-time European Tour winner has taken 31 putts each day so it's on the greens where he needs to improve over the weekend. Apr 17 - 6:31 AM